May 28, 2013
Well folks, this is it – only one more essay after this one (in which I have to thank a-couple-of-folks for rescuing me from my foibles and follies) and then, I will shift into poetry gear. Quite simply (and as I have suggested before) – I am seeing all sorts of folks (from TV pundits to ‘Letters to The Times’ contributors to script writers [from ‘Iron Man III,’ for instance]) who are articulately commenting on-the-stuff that I’ve been writing about for-the-past-6-and-a-half-years.
The bump on my head made me realize that I haven’t been writing for entirely altruistic reasons; rather, I have been abuse-reactive with regards to the entire Dr.’s Inn enterprise –often grinding an axe atop my moral high horse with the rather pompous title of: Renaissance Man (which I have now changed to: a student of Life 101).
Not only did the bump on my head humble me – but so did Anne Frank; whose diary is required- reading for my students in my Adolescent Psychology course. It was one-of-these students who analyzed Anne’s emotional and cognitive maturation during her time in the annex – that saw Anne beginning to annotate and revise her own earlier penning – and caused me to realize that I should do the same.
I began The Doctor’s Inn lashing out at Special Education and L.A. County Probation because they had both pissed me off: Special Education because I deemed it epistemologically wrong-headed; and L.A. County Probation, because they tried to ruin my life and professional career by fabricating charges against me. These were not the noblest of reasons to mount a bully pulpit and begin preaching from it – after all, no one gets up in the morning and decides that they want to fuck up their life…everyone who gets-out-of-bed each morning does so with the purpose to do the best they can that day.
It is with this understanding and empathy for those named or referred to in The Doctor’s Inn, that I recant everything I have written in these pages (pending revisions); and, I humbly apologize to all those I have dissed and/or denigrated under the guise of providing an Oasis from Chaos – a Rivendell if you will…
So I don’t know if I can list everyone in the words remaining to me, but I will do my level best in apologizing to: Dubya, Obama, Dick Cheney & Scooter, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, old friends and acquaintances, son-less fathers, Tea Party members, American women, priests, pedophiles, boy scouts, gays, Rush Limbaugh, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Kobe, Christopher Dorner, mass murderers, elephant poachers, Ray Manzerak, T Wooders, the Watchman, Tristian, my sons, my parents, Michiganders, Robert Plant, Pete Carroll, the Lakers, Lane Kiffin, John Hughes, Steve Lopez, Kalamazoo College, my students, Persian folk, Charlie Sheen, New York City, Navy Seals, Pierce CC, LGBTs, Meg Whitman, parents of school-aged children, Turks, Armenians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Big Pharma, Penn State, principals I have known, the wife, Plaschke, Simers, Goldberg, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Herman Cain, Ron Thomas, TLOTH and Petey.
The list could go-on-and-on but since I am truly repentant, and, promise not to be critical of my brothers and sisters again – I can only hope those not mentioned here who have felt abused by me – will also forgive me…
…almost there…but I\’ve got to begin adding more as they come to me…